Matt Lawrence <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Matt Lawrence wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
>>
>>> Do you have HTTP pipelining enabled? So you can download all 60
>>> images over a single TCP/IP connection?
>>>
>>> This is "KeepAlive On" in Apache httpd httpd.conf
>>
>> Good point. I just asked and it is turned off. Since Apache configs are
>> out of my juristiction, I have passed along the recommendation that it be
>> turned on. Thanks for the pointer.
>
> I have done more research. The reason it is turned off is that the number
> of unique visitors is so high that Apache winds up with too many idle
> threads eating up too much memory which also crashes the box.
Idle, as controlled by MaxSpareServers, or active, as controlled by MaxClients
or so? In my experience usually the later, but I have watched a number of my
staff spend inordinate amounts of time trying to tune the former to fix this
over the years.
Daniel
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